Andre Bazin Quotes
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
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As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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When companies are jumping on the bandwagon to do plus size, they limit themselves.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
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The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.